Malled vs Marled - What's the difference?
malled | marled |
(mall)
A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
A heavy blow.
An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See pall mall.
A place where the game of mall was played.
A public walk; a level shaded walk.
* Southey
(US, Australia) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
* 2002 , Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn?t ,
An enclosed shopping centre.
* 2004 , Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don?t Need a Million to Retire Well ,
* 2010 , Greg Holden, Starting an Online Business For Dummies ,
To beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise.
To build up with the development of shopping malls.
(informal) To shop at the mall.
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(chiefly, Scotland) Mottled, streaked, multicoloured.
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 49:
*:The Standing Stones reared up above the two, marled and streaked with snow they were, and a wind came blowing fit to freeze the chilblains on a brass monkey as they stood and glowered one at the other.
(marl)
As verbs the difference between malled and marled
is that malled is (mall) while marled is (marl).As an adjective marled is
(chiefly|scotland) mottled, streaked, multicoloured.malled
English
Verb
(head)mall
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Noun
(en noun)- (Addison)
- (Spenser)
- (Cotton)
- Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall .
- pedestrian mall
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- America?s first pedestrianized shopping mall' opened in 1959 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Like most later pedestrian ' malls , it was intended to revive what everybody thought was a decaying downtown.
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- Every day, at about the time the rest of us go to work, groups of retirees gather at many of America?s enclosed shopping malls .
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- In addition to Web site kits, ISPs, and businesses that specialize in Web hosting, online shopping malls provide another form of Web hosting.